completely random.

This is not my Christmas update...I will do that later.

I just had this thought. I'm sitting here, waiting for the 2:30 mtg. to start and I am exhausted. The Husband and I got in around 1:15-1:30 last night and I was up again at 5:20 to get ready for work. I feel like my eyelids have anvils hanging on them.

So I was sitting here thinking about how tired my Mom's family is right now, with all they've gone through this fall...renovating the house for Mom and in general dealing with what is going on. Christmas was wonderful, but everyone was so exhausted. I was thinking about Auntie Em - running around with her two young children, "Auntie Mabel" - dealing with her health problems and bad job situation, my Mom - 'nuff said, and "Dear Jewel" who is my aging grandmother but refuses to accept her limitations and goes like a train. We were all so drained and I was wondering who really was the most tired, when it hit me.

How awesome would it be if humans had the ability to focus their ... whatever (thoughts, mental picture), and instantly switch emotions with another person. How many times have you heard one person say, "Man, I had a rough night last night." Then...another person chimes in, "Dude, me too. It was SO rough!" If you had the ability to completely take on the feelings and emotions of another person, then it could not only settle who had the roughest night, but also be able to enable people to really "feel" for each other. It would increase the level of compassion that we have on our fellow brother and remind us that there may be times when things really could be worse. (I was sitting here earlier thinking, "I could not be more tired. There's no way.")

I guess as Christians we are called to be compassionate on faith, reaching outside ourselves to look at another person's situation and trust that what they are saying is truth. "This is the hardest thing I've ever done." If someone said that to you, you have to trust that it is in fact the hardest thing they've ever done. But if you are sitting there thinking to yourself, "Oh yeah? Well, I don't believe that...he didn't go through _________ that I went through a few years ago," then you would be able to switch feelings and the person would be able to feel that there may or may not be things worse than what they are dealing with. I just think it would be a very interesting ability to have...to completely be able to be in another person's shoes.

I guess too, I just so enjoy "picking someone's brain" about things...if I had that ability, I could completely see where they were coming from. I would hear their statements, but also understand the passion with which they felt them.

Or...maybe this whole randomly written post proves that I really am the most tired and am not thinking clearly at all. Who knows. :0)